Improvement in paper bags



A. L. SLAGER.

PAPER BAG.

Patented March 27 No.188,8Z3.

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the bag with the top flaps not closed over.

closed, and having the bail connected thereto substantially as represented in Fig. 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT L. SLAGEB, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

ll VlPROVEME NT IN PAPER BAGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 188.823, dated March 47, 1877; application filed February 1, 1877.

To all whom it may concern .Be it known that I, ALBERT L. SLAG-ER, of Springfield, in the county of Clarke, and in the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Bags and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction of a paper bag or sack for carryrying groceries or other articles of merchandise, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describeits construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of Fig. 2 represents a view ofthe top of the paper blank from which the bag is made. Fig. 3 represents a perspective View of the bag The bag or sack is formed of paper or other suitable flexible material, and is cut in a form so-that the blank, before the same is folded and pasted together, shallhave three projecting strips, a a, a, and two-ears, b b, at the top,

When the blank is folded around, the strips or a overlap each other, and are pastedtogether, so that they form a strip of equal These ears I) are each provided with a per foration, .r, to which are connected the two ends of a wire, B.

After the ears are folded down, this wire is twisted to bring the ears as close together as is required, and at the same time it forms a hand or finger loop to carry the bag by, as seen.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bag made of paper or other flexible material, formed from a blank, cut with the three projecting strips a a a, and perforated ears I) b at the top, substantially as shown and described.

' 2. The bail B, of wire, in combination with the ears b b and body A, having the turned in strips a a a. substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of January, 1877.

ALBERT L. SLAGER. Witnesses:

J. J. SMITH, GEORGE W. DALIE. 

